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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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94 BEGINNINGS OP THE UNIVERSITY Execution of Montrose" were delivered with spirit; and there was an intersociety contest, where more original efforts, as on "Chinese Immigration,'' "The Necessity for Education in a Republic," and "Battles, Their Causes and Influence," held the boards. Musical numbers were also given, and in the late spring a grand concert was held under the auspices of the three societies. They gave picnics, and were the center of all the social activities of the University. The junior and sophomore "exhibitions" of the time differed little from the contests of the societies, save that they included such purely literary forms as the essay, allegory, poem, and even short play. With these, with the class-day exercises, with the contests (after 1874) of the I. I. U. Oratorical Association, and with the commencements, at which each student spoke, forensic exercises did not languish at the University. Undergraduate publications were not yet important. The first was the Student, an eight-page monthly founded in the fall of 1871 by the senior class, which was far more an agent in education than a news periodical or representative of student sentiment. Editors were appointed for five departments, and they—with faculty advice—filled the columns with ambitiously conceived and expressed essays on formal topicsA'Stray news items fell into cramped quarters on the first page, and there were recorded with Spartan brevity the first athletic contests at the University—the battles of a student team with a Twin City baseball club. Short editorials were soon added, and we find these protesting against the Joseph's coat appearance of the regiment, denouncing the demoralizing influence of an exhibition by Forepaugh's circus just east of the campus, and recommending that the Regent permit use of the drill
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